Materials Relating to the Revision of the Party Programme

Preface to the PamphletMaterials Relating

		to the Revision of the Party Programme

TheCentral Committee of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour
      Party (“Bolsheviks”) has instructed the undersigned to publish
      immediately the material at present in the possession of the
      Central Committee relating to the revision of the Party
      Programme.

Thismaterial consists of the following:

a)The initial draft of amendments to the theoretical and
      political sections of the programme which the present writer
      submitted to the All-Russia Conference of the R.S.D.L.P. on
      April 24–29, 1917, and which was examined so far only by the
      committee set up by the Conference for the detailed elaboration
      of this question.

b)Comments on the draft, or in connection with the draft, made
      by the committee or by its individual members.

c)My reply to these comments.

d)A complete draft of proposed changes in the economic minimum
      programme worked out at the Conference of April 24–29, 1917 by
      the sub-committee on the protection of labour.

e)A draft, supplied with brief explanatory notes, of changes to
      be made in the clauses of the Party Programme dealing with
      public education. This draft was drawn up by N. K. Krupskaya
      after the Conference.

Iam appending brief notes to this material, for I consider that
      the chief purpose of the Party in publishing this material at
      the present time is to secure the active participation of the
      greatest possible number of comrades in the work of drawing up
      the Party Programme.

Takentogether, the proposed changes above enumerated form the
      draft of the complete text of a new programme. I therefore giveboththe old and the new texts of the programme at the
      end of this pamphlet, arranged so as to present the reader with
      all the material in the form most convenient for comparison and
      for the insertion of amendments.

Onbehalf of the Central Committee, I ask all comrades, both
      members of the Party and sympathisers, to reprint this material
      in Party publications as widely as possible, to bring it to the
      attention ofeverymember of the Party and to address
      all comments and proposals to the office ofPravda(32
      Moika, Petrograd, marked: for the Central Committee, Material
      Relating to Programme Revision).

May 20, 1917